Jazz Quotes

1344 Jazz quotes by 630 unique authors

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing. — Stevie Ray Vaughan
I'm not a big jazz fan. — Warren Zevon
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period… — Walter Becker
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences. — Tim Cahill
I'm a great jazz fan. — Vidal Sassoon
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. — Andy Richter
When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. — Molly Ringwald
I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up… — Eric Burdon
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as… — John Lydon
I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s. — Rita Coolidge
I've always loved jazz. — Rita Coolidge
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. — Rita Coolidge
Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot… — Rita Coolidge
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. — Rita Coolidge
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. — Rita Coolidge
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands,… — Ronnie Milsap
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to… — Dave Brubeck
Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music,… — Dave Brubeck
Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the… — Dave Brubeck
I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and… — Nicole Beharie
I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums,… — Samantha Barks
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music. — Aloe Blacc
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song. — Andrew Bird
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. — Anthony Braxton
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play,… — Carla Bley

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